What are the traditional Chinese educational toys?

One, bamboo dragonflies

Bamboo dragonflies because of the use of bamboo board as a material, and like a dragonfly can fly straight up, so the name bamboo dragonflies.

When you play, you can rub your hands together and let go of your hands, and it can fly up to the sky. This will also remind people of Doraemon head of the bamboo dragonfly, the young and unimportant us how much we hope that it can be inserted in the top of the head, take us to fly together.

In fact, the bamboo dragonfly is an ingenious little invention from ancient China, a simple but magical toy that once amazed Western missionaries, who called it the "Chinese Spiral". In the 1930s, the Germans invented the helicopter propeller based on the shape and principle of the bamboo dragonfly.

Two, kites

Kite flying is a lot of people's childhood fun, watching the kite slowly rise from the ground, flying high into the sky, the joy appeared at first. The dream of the heart, the freedom of yearning, also flew up with the kite.

The origin of kites can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,000 years ago, at first used to ventilate and report, and then in the Song Dynasty, it became a kind of folk entertainment game, quite popular among the people.

Three, rattles

Rattles are rattling toys that allow children to find the source of the sound and exercise their auditory skills. But rattles first appeared as a musical instrument in the Warring States period, the ancient name of the rattle, rattle drum, 鞉 drum. The Tibetan language called Damaru, Dak, around the Lu, Zheba poor Ge'a and Droni drums and so on.

Four, gyro

The shape of the gyro upper half of the circle, the lower part of the sharp, once upon a time more made of wood, modern more plastic or iron. Play can be wrapped around the rope, force draw rope, so that the upright rotation, or the use of clockwork elasticity rotation.

The gyro, a popular toy all over the world, was actually excavated from a Neolithic site in Xia County, Shanxi Province, China, where a stone gyro was made. It is evident that gyros have been in China for at least 4,000 to 5,000 years.